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Speaker 1: Matt Miller's out today, but we're joined by Lisa A.

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Speaker 1: Bromwi's Lisa, thanks so much for joining us. It's always

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Speaker 1: great to be back with you, and it's for a

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Speaker 1: really interesting day. Today is International Women's Day, and I

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Speaker 1: gotta say, Paul, it couldn't come on a more powerful moment.

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Speaker 1: One that has been the She Session where women have

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Speaker 1: disproportionately found themselves out of work as a result of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. And this comes as a whole host of

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Speaker 1: reasons fuel it. And yet here we are at a

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Speaker 1: pivotal moment for women entering the labor force and Karen

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Speaker 1: Mills joining us now has vast experience both from the

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Speaker 1: female perspective of being an entrepreneur, but also of what

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Speaker 1: it is to be in the in the labor market,

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Speaker 1: particularly with small business. She's a senior fellow at Harvard

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Speaker 1: Business School, the former Small Business Administrator for President Obama

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Speaker 1: from two thousand nine to two tho thirteen. Joining us

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Speaker 1: from Karen from Boston, not Karen. I apologize, Karen, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being with us. I just want

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Speaker 1: to start with just the vast pain experience in the

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Speaker 1: pandemic by women. How deep is the she session. First

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Speaker 1: of all, I'm so pleased to be with you today

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Speaker 1: because it's International Women's Day and you know we're marking

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Speaker 1: this moment, and you ask exactly the right question. Women

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Speaker 1: were a lot harder hit by, uh, this pandemic in

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Speaker 1: terms of, you know, the economic impact, and that is

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Speaker 1: One is a lot of women dropped out of the

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Speaker 1: workforce because of the increased pressures. And the number are tough.

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Speaker 1: Two point three million women dropped out one point eight men.

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Speaker 1: So you can just see there, you know they're going

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Speaker 1: all right, So, Karen, as we begin to approach, I

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Speaker 1: reopening of the US economy. Here, what can women do

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Speaker 1: And I just looked at these numbers before I came on,

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Speaker 1: because women owned businesses, fifty eight percent of them say

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Speaker 1: You know, we see more and more talk, We hear

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Speaker 1: a happy and inclusive workplace. If you want to have

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Speaker 1: Karen Mills, thank you so much for joining us. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Karen Mills, Senior fellow Harvard Business School, former

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Speaker 1: in which women have been hit harder and Karen shared

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Speaker 1: some statistics there. Women have been hit harder in terms

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Speaker 1: we always appreciate Lisa's opinion. So, Lisa, again, the rotation

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Speaker 1: some of the lessons learned from the pandemic on contactless

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Speaker 1: more from here. Lisa Shalit, chief investment officer at Morgan

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